Florida Teacher Starts Each Day Complimenting Students One by One
If you enjoy this teacher and his ideas, you can go and like “Special Books by Special Kids” and support the project. In a video posted to Facebook that’s been shared more than 8,000 times since it was posted on Sunday, Ulmer takes the time to pay several compliments to each and every one of […]
By: Nisha R Category: Articles Tags: education, positive news, special education, special kids, TEACHERS, teaching ideas
Food Trucks Make Healthy School Lunches a Little More Appealing
“Food trucks are a great addition to school food service—both from a way to engage the older kids and a way to engage the community,” says Ann Cooper, the director of food services at Colorado’s Boulder Valley School District. “It’s part of a great overall marketing strategy.” Last year, Boulder Valley became one of the […]
By: Nisha R Category: Articles Tags: healthy eating, high school, school lunch
Where Are The Cool Rap Songs About Math? Within Students
“He makes everything fun like a game,” says one student. “That really helps us understand how everything works.” Math teachers assign all kinds of activities to apply academic skills to the real world. At Willard Middle School in Berkeley, California, Robert MacCarthy (Mr. Mac) has made creating rap songs part of the algebra curriculum to […]
How TV Can Make Kids Better Readers
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/09/22/441417550/how-tv-can-make-kids-better-readers Is technology the best thing that ever happened to education? Or a silent killer of children’s attention spans and love of learning? Tap, Click, Read Tap, Click, Read Growing Readers in a World of Screens by Lisa Guernsey and Michael H. Levine Paperback, 224 pages purchase nonfiction More on this book: NPR reviews, interviews […]
A Miracle on Marquez Avenue
This is FreshSchools, so why not talk about a FRESH teaching perspective? Meet Mr. Jeffrey Lantos, a fifth grade teacher at Marquez Elementary in Pacific Palisades. Mr. Lantos, or Mr. L, as his students call him, is an icon (read: rock star) at the school. Sometimes, even in the mire and mandates that are LAUSD, […]
A PRINCIPAL SPEAKS
As I wrote in one of my first blogs for FreshSchools, the turnover rate for Principals is disturbingly high. Many don’t even make it past two years. Being a parent, I’ve heard grumbles about the “administration” for years in various schools. I had my own personal gripe last year which brought me to my knees. […]
HALLOWEEN JUNKIE
Halloween is like Anchovy Pizza. You love it or hate it. Loren Schmalle loves it. He’s one of those UBER parents who every year steps up and does the impossible—he mounts a massive Halloween Festival at our local public school. The mantle was handed down to him from Kurt Bierschenk, his Halloween mentor and fellow […]
By: Nisha R Category: School Events
Volunteers Rule!
Summer keeps getting shorter. The time to relax with the kids, unwind and disconnect is over before you need to heat the pool. For most of us, back to school means the loss of precious family time. However, it may also mean returning to a comforting routine and increased freedom. For some of us, it […]
By: Nisha R Category: Volunteers
